Eric Hoffer Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

• The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Time, Work

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Youth, Talent

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Good Luck, Greatness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Numbers, People

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Time, Future

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Soldier, Renaissance

  "Before the Sabbath". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1979.

• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

  Eric Hoffer

  Teacher, Time, Children

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 33, 1973.

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